Farmer campaigns against Schwarzenegger water plan (AG Weekly)

6 September 2008, 10:11 am

SACRAMENTO - Dino Cortopassi is a wealthy farmer who grew up in California’s fertile delta region and, as he tells it, is passionate about protecting it.... read more

Beach Boy Brian Wilson delights lucky, small crowd (Contra Costa Times)

6 September 2008, 7:45 am

It was one for the history books. Yet, Friday night's concert at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland may well be one that Brian Wilson will want to forget.... read more

Modesto Nuts out of California League playoffs in a rout (Modesto Bee)

6 September 2008, 5:40 am

STOCKTON -- Anyone whose introduction to baseball was the Modesto-Stockton California League mini-series would walk away thinking that turning the double play is the game's most difficult feat.... read more

David Regan, longtime Sentinel publisher, set to retire again (Santa Cruz Sentinel)

6 September 2008, 1:56 am

Longtime Sentinel Publisher David Regan will step down at the end of the month and be replaced by Mario van Dongen, publisher of the Marin Independent Journal, a move announced Friday by California Newspaper Partnership, which operates both papers.... read more

Medi-Cal providers slam lawmakers for failure to pass budget (The Sacramento Bee)

6 September 2008, 12:17 am

Health care providers struggling to keep their doors open during California's record budget impasse accused state lawmakers Friday of "criminal negligence" for endangering their patients. Steven Carlos, 35, who lives in a Medi-Cal home in San Jose, joins Medi-Cal providers and patients in a C... read more

Oakland's Rockridge District makes visitors feel at home (The Record)

5 September 2008, 11:51 pm

Strictly speaking, Oakland's Rockridge District is not a day (or night) trip destination. It's a neighborhood.... read more